Verse 5
Exodus 23:5
Literal Standard Version
5
when you see the donkey of him who is hating you crouching under its burden, then you have ceased from leaving it to it—you certainly leave it with him.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּֽי תִרְאֶ֞ה חֲמ֣וֹר שֹׂנַאֲ/ךָ֗ רֹבֵץ֙ תַּ֣חַת מַשָּׂא֔/וֹ וְ/חָדַלְתָּ֖ מֵ/עֲזֹ֣ב ל֑/וֹ עָזֹ֥ב תַּעֲזֹ֖ב עִמּֽ/וֹ
English Translation
When you see your enemy's donkey lying under its burden and you stop yourself from helping it, you must surely help with him.
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Chapter 23 Context
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You do not lift up a vain report; you do not put your hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness...
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You are not after many to do evil, nor do you testify concerning a strife, to turn aside after many...
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and you do not honor a poor man in his strife.
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When you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you certainly turn it back to him;
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when you see the donkey of him who is hating you crouching under its burden, then you have ceased fr...
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You do not turn aside the judgment of your poor in his strife;
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you keep far off from a false matter, and you do not slay an innocent and righteous man; for I do no...
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And you do not take a bribe, for the bribe binds the open-eyed and perverts the words of the righteo...
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And you do not oppress a sojourner, since you have known the soul of the sojourner, for you have bee...
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And for six years you sow your land and have gathered its increase;
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and in the seventh you release it, and have left it, and the needy of your people have eaten, and th...
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Six days you do your work, and on the seventh day you rest, so that your ox and your donkey rest, an...
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and in all that which I have said to you—take heed; and you do not mention the name of other gods; i...
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14
You keep a celebration to Me three times in a year:
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you keep the Celebration of Unleavened Things (you eat unleavened things for seven days as I have co...
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and the Celebration of Harvest, the first-fruits of your works which you sow in the field; and the C...
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Three times in a year all your males appear before the face of the Lord YHWH.
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You do not sacrifice the blood of My sacrifice on a fermented thing, and the fat of My festival does...
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the beginning of the first-fruits of your ground you bring into the house of your God (Elohim) YHWH;...
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Behold, I am sending a Messenger before you to keep you in the way, and to bring you to the place wh...
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be watchful because of His presence, and listen to His voice, do not rebel against Him, for He does...
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for if you listen diligently to His voice, and have done all that which I speak, then I have been at...
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23
For My Messenger goes before you, and has brought you to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Periz...
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24
You do not bow yourself to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their doings, but utterly...
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And you have served your God (Elohim) YHWH, and He has blessed your bread and your water, and I have...
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there is not a miscarrying and barren one in your land; I fulfill the number of your days.
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I send My terror before you, and I have put to death all the people among whom you come, and I have...
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And I have sent the hornet before you, and it has cast out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittit...
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I do not cast them out from before you in one year, lest the land be a desolation, and the beast of...
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I cast them out little by little from before you, until you are fruitful, and have inherited the lan...
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And I have set your border from the Red Sea, even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilder...
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You do not make a covenant with them and with their gods;
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they do not dwell in your land, lest they cause you to sin against Me when you serve their gods, whe...
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